"Let the sailor immediately block the channel of Fanyang Lake in and out of the Yangtze River, and then let the eighth regiment support Hukou, and then give the troops an order, I will climb the wall of Jiujiang City within three days!" Lin Chengting knew very well that although Hukou was very important, he remained pessimistic about whether he could hold Hukou in the case of a large-scale attack by the enemy's main force.

He only hoped that the Hukou side could drag on for a few more days, so that he would have enough time to take Jiujiang down, and then rely on Jiujiang to fight a defensive battle.

At the same time, the entrance to Panyang Lake must be completely blocked, and the fleet of the Chinese army must not be allowed to break in, otherwise it will not be the gain or loss of Jiujiang, but the gain or loss of the entire Jiangxi.

Because once the navy of the Chinese army smoothly passes through the entrance of Panyang Lake and enters Panyang Lake, the naval division belonging to the Zhenhu Army with the strength of the Chinese navy will not be able to resist them at all, and when the time comes, the ships of the Chinese navy carrying the landing force will land there if they like to land, and it is even possible to bypass Jiujiang and directly attack Nanchang.

After receiving Lin Chengting's order, the sailors of the Zhenhu army also acted quickly.

The ships in the naval division of the Zhenhu army are all Chinese-style hard sailing ships, which are basically no different from the naval divisions of the Hunan army, and Lin Chengting himself wants to build some steam gunboats like the navy of the Chinese army, but he can't even figure out what the steam engine is, and he can't buy it outside, and even if he can buy it, he can't send it back through the Yangtze River.

Therefore, the ships of the naval division of the Zhenhu army are still old Chinese-style hard sailing ships, and they also know that they cannot resist the attack of the Chinese army on their own, so their method is to directly block the entrance of Panyang Lake into the Yangtze River.

Ships loaded with sand and gravel were directly sunk into the river, and then several barrage cables were pulled up, in order to completely block the waterway, and there was a situation where there was no way out and no way in.

And when several ships of the 2nd Gunboat Detachment of the Chinese Navy arrived at the mouth of the lake, they found that the entrance channel into Panyang Lake was blocked. I was so angry that I almost scolded my mother, although the specific methods used were different, but wasn't this the blockade operation that my own navy planned to use in Jiangyin at the beginning of the year?

At the beginning of the year, in the face of the huge fleet of the British and French forces, the navy of the Chinese Empire, like the current Zhenhu Army and Naval Division, did not even have the confidence to resist, and directly and passively relied on shore defense batteries to resist. They all made up their minds that if the Jiangyin Fort could not be defended, most of the ships of the navy would have to sink the river to block the channel and prevent the Anglo-French fleet from reaching the city of Nanjing.

However, in the first half of the year, the performance of the coastal defense batteries of the Chinese army was quite good, especially the intensive firepower of the Wusong Fort, which made the fleet of the British and French forces suffer a lot, and later when they tried to venture to Jiangyin, they found that there were also batteries on the Jiangyin side, and the artillery was more than the Wusong Battery, which directly dispelled the plan to rely on the fleet and go straight to Nanjing.

Therefore, the navy's closed battle plan had no chance to be implemented, but it would be thought that the enemy would also use this trick on the Jiujiang side.

Looking at the iron cables in the main channel and the sunken ship, one of the naval colonels who led the team had a gloomy face. When a number of surveying and mapping boats were sent to survey and map, the result was that the main channel had been completely blocked, and it was impossible to enter at all, and if they wanted to enter, they had to clear the channel.

And to clean up the waterway, it will take a month or two for such a big project, to say the least.

With a gloomy countenance, the admiral who led the army had to brush the fleet back to the Yangtze River, and then send someone to immediately report to the Admiralty in Nanjing. Let them send specialized engineering ships to clear the fairway.

On a small hill to the west of Panyang Lake, Lin Chengting looked at the few ships full of weirdness and turned their heads with a faint white smoke. Then after returning to the Yangtze River, I couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief.

After blocking the enemy's navy, he would not have to worry about the Chinese army entering Panyang Lake or even directly attacking Nanchang, and now it would be up to him to determine the victory or defeat on land.

Outside Hukou City, Xu Pengan looked at the soldiers of the Zhenhu Army at the head of the city. A sneer appeared at the corner of his mouth, just because you also want to block the attack of my fourth division?

The Chinese Army and the Zhenhu Army can be said to be old rivals, when the Yongying in Yuyao County was first established, the first battle was fought with Lin Chengting's troops, and they fought with each other many times in the following two years. Even until 1856, the Chinese army and the Zhenhu army fought a battle in Changzhou, but that battle was a bit anticlimactic, because of the internal strife in Tianjing, Lin Chengting was furious, and he didn't care about fighting with the Chinese army and went back to Nanjing.

Later, the Chinese army fought several small battles with the Zhenhu army in northern Jiangxi and the Zhenhu army, and in the western part of Fujian, a major battle of more than 10,000 people broke out between the two sides, forcing the Zhenhu army to abandon the plan to advance eastward and retreat to Jiangxi.

Now the Chinese army is once again marching westward, and it is against the Zhenhu army again!

The reason why the Chinese army marched west and fought with the Zhenhu army was not because the Chinese army and the Zhenhu army had any hatred or anything like that, but that Lin Chengting now was the same as Shi Dakai at the beginning, and his entrenchment in Jiangxi was the same as Shi Dakai who was entrenched in Zhenjiang and Nanjing back then, and became an obstacle to the westward advance of the Chinese army.

If the Chinese army wants to advance westward, it must take these places, whether these places are controlled by the Manchu Qing or Taiping armies, or in the hands of the Hunan army and the Zhenhu army, it makes no difference to the Chinese army.

The attack on Hukou took place under such a big backdrop, and after several small-scale armed tests in the morning, Xu Pengan had already tried out the defenders in Hukou City in general.

Through the information collected before and the actual combat temptation, it can be basically determined that the defenders in the city will not exceed 10,000 people, and it is estimated that there will be about seven or eight thousand people.

Moreover, quite a few of them are some Zhenhu Cooperative Defense Army that fights with cold weapons, and the real main force, that is, the Zhenhu Army's new army, is estimated to be about two or three thousand people.

If the other party's seven or eight thousand people are the main force of the Zhenhu army, Xu Pengan may be a little more afraid, but since the opposite side is all some auxiliary defense forces, then Xu Pengan is not polite, he didn't let the troops make too many preparations, and directly launched a large-scale attack on Hukou in the afternoon, trying to take Hukou in one go.

And the battle situation is indeed the same as he expected, although the defenders in Hukou City resisted quite stubbornly, but under the absolute disadvantage they did not even support it for a day and a night, and when it came to the next morning, it was attacked into the city by the Chinese army, and then a large number of Zhenhu troops abandoned the city and fled, and then fled all the way to Panyang Lake. Then he climbed directly onto the boat of the waiting Zhenhu Army Naval Division.

"It seems that their Auxiliary Defense Force is even worse than ours!" Xu Pengan looked at the fleeing Zhenhu army in front of him, and he didn't have much joy, this victory was nothing to him, even if it was reported, it was not good news.

There have been many victories, and now the generals of the Chinese army have become accustomed to victory, and the battles of hundreds of people and thousands of people on weekdays basically do not attract anyone's attention. If it is to destroy tens of thousands of enemies, this opponent is a new army, it can be regarded as a good news, but if the opponent is the old army, basically no one pays attention, and the generals on the front line are not even able to get any awards for this.

Only those major battles that annihilated tens of thousands or even tens of thousands of the enemy's new army in World War I could be written about and then urgently sent back to Nanjing to report the victory.

In the first battle of Hukou, the opponent was too bad, although there were two or three thousand Zhenhu army new army. However, the first division has nearly 10,000 people, and its weaponry and training are far superior to those of its opponents, and there is no suspense about winning.

"It is estimated that it is the second-class level of the auxiliary defense army in our army, the weapons are good, and the bravery is acceptable, but the training is poor!" A colonel on the side also replied: "When our army's First Auxiliary Defense Division went to the city to fight before, when the two sides engaged in hand-to-hand combat, their training level was obviously inferior to that of the soldiers of the First Auxiliary Defense Division!" ”

The other people nodded their heads again and again. Some people even said: "At this level, it's better to use the same name as us." I'm not afraid of being embarrassed! ”

"Hehe, it's not the first time that Lin Chengting has plagiarized us, what is this name, don't you know that their Zhenhu Army has the same name as the commander, to the detailed establishment of the troops, and even the style of the military uniform?"

As soon as these words came out, more people laughed!

Lin Chengting was the first person in China to learn from Lin Zhe and train the army. He was defeated by Lin Zhe several times, and every time he was defeated, he was calm and painful, in addition to thinking of various novel tactics to deal with the Chinese army, he also directly copied the new army model of the Chinese army to train his own new army.

At that time, the first person in China to use trenches and chest walls was not Lin Zhe, but Lin Chengting. Long before Lin Chengting trained the Zhenhu army, he trained a line infantry of four or five thousand people to fight against Yu Sheng's army.

At the beginning in Zhejiang, the battle between Lin Zhe and Lin Chengting was the earliest battle between the line infantry in China, which directly led to the first war mode of queuing to shoot in China.

Later, he trained the Zhenhu Army, and not only copied the tactics, but even the detailed establishment, the title of the troops, the rank system, and the style of military uniforms.

is also a plagiarist, Li Hongzhang's Jianghuai New Army and the Qing Army of Duxing'a want to make a face, at least they will not directly apply the names of Yu Shengjun's company, battalion, regiment, division, etc., but Lin Chengting directly copied it all, and even the first-class soldier, second-class soldier, non-commissioned officer system and officer rank system were completely copied.

In terms of appearance, there are only two differences between the Zhenhu Army and the Chinese Army, one is the color of the military uniform, one is blue-gray and the other is dark blue, and the other is the weapon.

Except for these two points, everything else is basically the same, down to the size of the pockets of the military uniform, and the color of the troops on the military pants are all the same.

And Lin Chengting not only copied the Royal Army, but also copied the Auxiliary Defense Army.

After hearing that the Chinese Army had set up an auxiliary defense army, he also organized and trained the auxiliary defense army, as before, he did not even change his name, and directly used the auxiliary defense army, and the establishment was the same, a hand-to-hand combat regiment with two cold weapons under a division plus a musket regiment.

But you can say that Lin Chengting's plagiarism is shameless, but it cannot be denied that his plagiarism is quite successful, he was able to fight with the Taiping Army for two years with Jiangxi alone, and the number of new troops under his command is much less than that of the Hunan Army, but it can be equal to the Hunan Army, and the overall combat power is not much weaker than the Hunan Army.

And how many provinces support the Hunan army behind it? Hunan, Yunnan, Guizhou, Guangxi, and before that, Sichuan also provided military spending for the Hunan army.

Although the Zhenhu Army was a little smaller, poorer, and poorer in weaponry, in terms of organization and training, it was the closest to the Chinese Army among the many new armies in China, and even Li Hongzhang's Jianghuai New Army had some gaps compared to the Zhenhu Army.

If there is no Chinese army, among the many new armies in China, the Zhenhu army should be the top of the platoon, if the Chinese army suddenly disappears now, it is impossible for the Manchu Qing Dynasty to unify China in the future, it cannot be the Taiping army, the Hunan army is choked enough, and the most likely is Lin Chengting, who seems to be the weakest person.

The eight words of taking the enemy as a teacher and repeatedly defeating and fighting are enough to encompass Lin Chengting!

And such a person is actually more of a headache than those who are eloquent, the strong are like overlords, and they are only playing self-killing after losing this battle once, but what about Lin Chengting?

How many times has this person been defeated under Lin Zhe and Shi Dakai, and every time he flees in embarrassment, do you think he will use 'shameless to face Jiangdong's father' and then commit suicide?

No kidding, people are running away in embarrassment and shouting: I will come back! (To be continued......)